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Warwick Castle, Jasper Francis Cropsey

What's next? shout out to theo for the donation, and sad on the sr.ht comment. but generally so fun watch. #Programming [permlink]

It's fascinating how easy it is to love in memory [permlink]

Memory has a way of polishing people into archetypes [permlink]

Tuesday afternoon, alone, and free. Why it feels painfully different? [permlink]

Have I reached that era of my life, in which I've the belief that I consumed all good movies, and I will spend the rest of my life just rewatching them? #Cinema [permlink]

I have not find any works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti interesting enough. Maybe La viuda romana, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. #Art [permlink]

Charges Against Daniel Ellsberg. It's very impressive how Chomsky was very sharp, intelligent and well-spoken from such a young age. [permlink]

I had some questions about al-Jabri and I missed having connection to people who I might share with them my questions. [permlink]

It's been said that every editor is destined to repeat Emacs. I extend that to, every computer software is destined to repeat Emacs. #Emacs #Programming [permlink]

Today I found a tiktoker playing arpeggios in circle of fifths, and claiming that she composed it by herself. [permlink]

TIL how a camera works What is a pinhole camera? #Science [permlink]

quality of HN comments. I don't get what ed meant there, my best interpretation is that it was a playful moment on the keyboard, which I find joyful and nice. [permlink]

TIL that silent letters in English were the results of men trying to "fix English" across history #linguist [permlink]

The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. [permlink]

"I created Kyoshi Island so my people can be safe from invasions", does not this contradict with her responsibilities? What about other people? [permlink]

Alexandre Charles Guillemot looks interesting and mysterious, he only had 3 paintings, but they're all so beautiful. [permlink]

I think I need to have more of a retrospective about Uncle Iroh's life, and how tolerant and forgiving of a person he was. #19:53 Mercy, and a journal template. [permlink]

I never thought of a good use to bottom-posting (including all the conversation when replying in emails). Now I can see how useful it is when forwarding emails. [permlink]

MIT police is a a glorified shorta madrasia [permlink]

Welcome (back) to Macintosh ~ take [permlink]

Mind map of Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high #Modus Vivendi [permlink]

Playing Leonard Cohen's "Anyhow". How sad. #Music [permlink]

Category:Artists who died by suicide - Wikipedia #artist [permlink]

The Last Painter of the Victorian Age. I was intrigued by John William Godward's work so I looked him up, I didn't expect his life to be that deep and interesting. [permlink]

Today I watched a stupid movie called. A Short Film About Love 1998, it is not short, and did not seem to be about love. [permlink]

Just watched Adaptation, what a beautiful, fantastic movie. #Cinema [permlink]

Prayer is not interruption. It's the frame. [permlink]

From Kierkegaard's journals: "I avoided her to put her off in case she should get the idea that I had thought about her while I was abroad." Men. [permlink]

Erotic love and friendship are earthly happiness, a temporal good just like money, largesse, talents, etc., though even better. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

There came a moment when, overwhelmed in bliss, I dared to say to myself: I have understood the highest. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

How could the person who believes in the forgiveness of sins possibly become young enough to fall erotically in love? ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

In my melancholy I have still loved the world, for I loved my melancholy. ~Kierkegaard #Notes of Works of love #23:22 A very interesting note about love [permlink]

Woman is and remains, after all, an inexhaustible topic for my reflections, an eternal profusion for my observations. ~Kierkegaard #Women [permlink]

The only absolute either/or there is is the choice between good and evil, but it is also absolutely ethical. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

And this can explain why, when God created Eve, He let a deep sleep fall upon Adam; for woman is the man’s dream. #Kierkegaard [permlink]

Still, anxiety in itself is not beautiful; it is so only when one sees at the same time the energy that overcomes it. ~Kierkegaard #On Depression [permlink]

I love existence and being a human being far too much to believe that the path to becoming an uncommon man is easy or without temptations. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

Thus is his finite personality now made infinite in the choice in which he infinitely chooses himself. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

Perhaps you thought I would pass over the subject of friendship and its ethical validity in silence. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

With her depth of soul she needs to love with an extraordinary passion, if she does fall in love. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

But you must divide yourself, you must hope by day and sorrow by night, or sorrow by day and hope by night. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

There are times when one can be so infinitely pained on seeing someone all alone in the world. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

The sorrowing person finds relief, and sorrow’s sympathetic knight rejoices at having found what he was seeking. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

I think of the moment when, later in life, I stood at the crossroads, when my soul was matured in the hour of decision. [permlink]

The present is forgotten, the outer is penetrated, the past resurrected, sorrow’s breathing is made easy. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

The individual does not fight external enemies; it is with itself and its love that it fights it out, of its own accord. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

I can therefore never be ethically conscious without becoming conscious of my eternal being. #Kierkegaard [permlink]

As the individual develops, God becomes for him more and more infinite, he feels himself further and further from God. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

Despairing in my melancholy I have nevertheless always remained calm and, if I may say so, God-fearing. ~Kierkegaard [permlink]

The Bootstrap #Go #Programming [permlink]

2026-02-26 Clone a virtual machine from inside it maps are beautiful. [permlink]

Artemisia's life and works are so interesting, I'm surprised I can not find any cinema or literature works on her. #artist #Artemisia Gentileschi [permlink]

Sorry I was so glum. I’m in a cursed mood and can’t bear the human face. Virginia Woolf Letter to Ethel Smyth. 10th February 1933 #Letters [permlink]

Reading some anonymous history, all these attacks seem to be denial-of-service related. Is why we no longer hear about them? #Cyber security [permlink]

It's a young age in which to have conquered the world, but taken damage to the soul ~Rhett Butler [permlink]

Do not apologize for replying late to my email, please. [permlink]

What a letter.. [permlink]

The industrail revolution. One of my favorites videos ever. [permlink]

Thinking about the most women figures I loved so far: Madame Binh, Clarice Lispector, Carol Chomsky, Leila Khaled, Louise Michel, Rosa Luxemburg. [permlink]

Electricity use of AI coding agents/Simon P. Couch. #LLMs [permlink]